CBN intensifies forex supply with $255m

Ahead of the outcome of the ongoing Monetary Policy Committee meeting in Abuja, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Monday, May 22, 2017, again injected over $255 million in to the foreign exchange market.

A breakdown of what market watchers termed as another massive intervention indicated that the sum of $100 million was released for the wholesale segment of the market for both spots and forwards.

The Acting Director, Corporate Communications Department at the CBN, Isaac Okorafor said through a statement in Abuja that the Investors and Exporters segment of the market had so far recorded a trade volume in the sum of $1.1 billion from both the CBN and autonomous windows which according to him, was an indication of the appreciable level of confidence in the foreign exchange management by foreign investors and autonomous suppliers of foreign exchange to the market.

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